The newly released Ubuntu build of the latest and second release candidate of the mainline v4.12 kernel now includes the driver for the RTL8723BS chip.
As the current Ubuntu distro releases don't include the required WiFi firmware you will need to install it in order to get a working WiFi connection when using for the first time.
There are several ways including:
1. Installing the latest 'linux-firmware' package from Canonical
2. Installing the firmware from Bastien Nocera's 'rtl8723bs' GitHub (hadess)
3. Installing the package I've created for this purpose
And although the driver supports bluetooth similarly the required BT firmware and software needs to be installed from:
1. Compiling and installing from Larry Finger's 'rtl8723bs_bt' GitHub (lwfinger)
2. Installing the package I've created for this purpose
The package is useful as it can be included when respinning an ISO meaning WiFi/BT will be immediately available.
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As the current Ubuntu distro releases don't include the required WiFi firmware you will need to install it in order to get a working WiFi connection when using for the first time.
There are several ways including:
1. Installing the latest 'linux-firmware' package from Canonical
2. Installing the firmware from Bastien Nocera's 'rtl8723bs' GitHub (hadess)
3. Installing the package I've created for this purpose
And although the driver supports bluetooth similarly the required BT firmware and software needs to be installed from:
1. Compiling and installing from Larry Finger's 'rtl8723bs_bt' GitHub (lwfinger)
2. Installing the package I've created for this purpose
The package is useful as it can be included when respinning an ISO meaning WiFi/BT will be immediately available.
The package can be downloaded from 'rtl8723bs_4.12.0-041200rc2_amd64.deb'
and installed with 'sudo dpkg -i rtl8723bs_4.12.0-041200rc2_amd64.deb'